Present simple IREP

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Present simple tense

Let's see how well you know this already.

Mary ___ (be) twenty-nine years old.

Jose and I ___ (study) chemistry together every friday.

He usually ___ (drive).

Mr. Anderson ___ (teach) chemistry at Hill High School.

When do we use the present simple?

• Facts

Water freezes at 0ºC.

• Habits

I buy flowers every Tuesday.

• Things that happen regularly

They often eat together.

words often used in the present simple tense

The present simple often includes the following words:

• Every
• Usually
• Always
• Never
• Often
• Sometimes
• Rarely
• Regularly

Rules

I, we, and they uses the infinitive

I play basketball every Saturday.

We usually play chess.

She, he, and it uses base (stam) +s

She always walks down here.

It loses it's fur in spring.

exemptions to the rules

You may learn these by heart or naturally

• Add -es when a verb ends on -s, -x, -z, -ch, and -sh.
  
• Add -es when using do and go.
• Have becomes has
• If a verb ends on a -y, then replace it with -ies
• But if there is a vowel (a, e, i, o, u,) in front of the -y then you just add -s

To be forms (you probably know these already)

I am funny

You are funny

He is funny

She is funny

It is funny

We are funny

You are funny

They are funny

Let's try again

They ___ (eat) lunch at 12:00.

It ___ (snow) here in December.

You never ___ (make) breakfast for me. I always ___ (have) to make it myself.

The mechanic ___ (fix) my car when it breaks down.

When Dax ___ (take) a shower, he ___ (wash) his hair with shampoo.

The football team never ___ (score). They ___ (lose) all the time.

Questions in the present simple

Yes / no questions

• We use 'do' or 'does' before the subject to make a yes or no question

Does she eat apples every day?

Do you never buy new plants?

• Do is used for I, we, and they.
• Does is used for he, she, and it.

What time ___ you go to bed?

___ your dog like bread?

Where ___ he go on hollidays?

___ they teach Spanish ?

WH questions

• If you'd like to make a 'wh' question, you keep the same structure as the yes / no question and put the 'WH' word in front.

Is she eating?

What is she eating?

Where / John?

Where / John?

Why / they / in the kitchen?

Negations in the present simple

• You make a negative in the present simple by adding don't or doesn't

I don't like apples.

She doesn't do anything.

• The SHIT-rule applies once again

Use short versions in the following questions

Example: don't

She ___ (not/eat) meat.

They ___ (not/play) football.

It ___ (not/do) much.

Negations in the present simple using 'to be'

• To make a negative using a form of 'to be' in the present simple, you simple add 'not'. Preferably the short form "n't"

She isn't happy.

They aren't funny.

I'm not happy.

It ___ (not/be) warm outside.

He ___ (not/be) in the bathroom.

We ___ (not/be) at home.